More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild

- Diane Di Prima

Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of the streets and the sou…

- Diane Di Prima

Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose.

- Diane Di Prima

In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love

- Diane Di Prima

The only war is the war against the imagination.

- Diane Di Prima

It is still news to her that passion could steer her wrong though she went down, a thousand times strung out across railroad tracks, off bridges unde…

- Diane Di Prima

I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shap…

- Diane Di Prima

I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life

- Diane Di Prima